Something worth the while

While I while my time away,
While I got nothing to say
I wonder why my pen runs on paper
It hasn't always been this way.

When I've got a cold
and I cant sing a song,
I sit with a beautiful diary
and my pen just runs along,
Searching for something worthwhile to say
While I while my time away.

At night as on my bed I lay,
It hasn't been a really long day,
and as I wait for my spirits to ebb,
I feel tired, but not my nib.
Sleepily in my sheets I curl,
But my fantasy poem needs one last twirl.
"What's worthwhile in you?", I say.
She says, "I whiled your time away! :)"

Indulge..!

Indulge in the beauty of eyes so blue
Indulge in the glory of love so true.
Indulge in a kiss
Indulge in a touch
Indulge in the ecstasy
Indulge in the rush
Indulge in rich chocolate - cakes and mousse
Indulge in a drink or two - feel them set you loose
Indulge in a song, a rhythm or a tune
Indulge in memories that never fade away too soon
Indulge in leisure, a hobby, an art
Indulge in everything, give all of it your heart.
Indulge in sorrow
Indulge in pain
Indulge in vanity, All in vain :)
Indulge in mirth
Indulge in silence
Indulge in life
Indulge in indulgence...!

A song

Here is a song,

Here is a song.

Won't you play the chords along.

As I sing and you strum your guitar

Honey, we couldn't go wrong.

What shall i give you honey,

Something that will always go on...

A song so bright and sunny,

A melody to keep your heart warm.

I can't do any better as I try to write this song,

But its slowly coming along.

It doesn't take a lot to get a song right.

All I have to do is colour the pages bright.

From your six-string, the rest will flow,

And as we sing, the world will know,

Here is a song, here is a song

Here is the place we belong.

Dew Drop and Ray

Dew Drops on a mayflower
shine and glow,
glisten in sunlight, like fresh bright snow.

Beautiful Dew Drops
pure and round,
lounging on all the flowers around.

A Ray of gold, on the diamond bright
Indeed creates a charming delight!
Who'd imagine the rainbow inside
A single glaring beam of light?

Dew Drop knew, he'd always known
The beauty inside the bright bold Ray.
He could see how the colours were sewn
in an elegant intricately simple way.

He knew all her secrets,
he had seen her heart.
And this nearly tore poor Ray apart.

He caused her agony and deliberate pain.
Oh... she looked lovely in such disdain.
Amazed at her own spectrum,
she stared at the drop;
Asked what he had done to her
and beckoned him to stop.

Dew drop chuckled back at her,
"That's how it will be..
When you are with me
Oh Darling,
When you are with me!"

Don't wanna miss missing you

Sometimes, Life can be so good
When you think it can't get better,
It amazingly always would.
Yeah...
Life is beautiful.

Sometimes, there could be someone
Who was always right beside you
When you were thinking they were gone.
All you do is open your eyes,
Let go, make way for a sweet surprise
And courage will help you realise...

Sometimes, Life can be so good
When you think it can't get better,
It amazingly always would.
Yeah... Life is beautiful.

aaj kal

Aaj kal paon jameen par nahi padate mere...
Bolo.. dekha hai kabhi tumne mujhe udate hue?

(lyrics- gulzar)

What is Life if full of care...

From the beginning of time, we have been taught to face the challenges of life with a smile. They say its the challenges that put the "life" into Life. Very true, I guess. There have always been lessons and poems in school text books reiterating this very thought. But in the midst of giving a fight to all problems and challenges, did they forget to tell us "how to deal" with a normal life?
One without any problems?
Yeah.. I know you would say... there is no such perfect life. Everyone has their own problems. It is facing these problems that makes a person stronger everyday. It helps to build qualities that we may lack in. It increases endurance, etc. But all this for what?? More problems of course. Now suppose that all your problems finish... hypothetically. It just might be possible that we are in the midst of a nightmare!! :) Isn't it ironical??

Let me support my hypothesis with a few examples. (Am I studying too hard for GRE? :p i dont think so... anyway... coming back..)
My mom takes tuitions of school kids. Just today, This boy from 7th std was solving an exercise on indices. There were sums like
17 raised to 0
1/3 raised to 0
-11 raised to 0

He asked mom if he should leave that exercise and go ahead to the next one.. It was tooo easy.. Nothing to keep the brain stimulated. No challenges. EASY.
One would have felt in the normal circumstances that Pune university sucks.. and would have probably advised the boy to skip 2 more exercises and go on right ahead. But... no... Mom said no! "Whats wrong with doing easy stuff?? You are asking me to exempt you from doing it ... this means that you have a problem with doing it... whats your problem?? Aren't you able to do it??"
I went to the poor guys rescue.. saying that its tooo boring and not worth the effort. Nothing new to learn from it. Basically "hamali"!
"So whats the problem?? DO it. Indeed you people do have a problem! The problem for you guys is .. that there is no problem! You cant enjoy life when there are no problems?? What happened to enjoying the easy stuff?? "

Well, no one ever taught us THAT. Yeah, now the "real problem" is that no one taught us to deal with no problems.. DO you see how I try to invent a "real problem" so that I am preoccupied in solving it? Or at least contemplating it. Thats coz I cant deal with not having one :)
Its getting too meshy :) and recursive :D

So i guess thats the reason we are all looking for challenging jobs. New things to do everyday. So that we grow and don't remain stunted. But at the very base of this growth lies the fact that we may be running away from something we can't really do.
LIVE.